A newly discovered fish fossil is the earliest known creature with what might be recognized as a face.

Entelognathus primordialiswas an ancient fish that lived about 419 million years ago in the Late Silurian seas of China. The finding, detailed today (Sept. 25) in the journal Nature, provides a link between two groups of fishes previously thought to be unrelated, challenging long-held notions of how vertebrate faces evolved.